A magnitude 5.2 earthquake hit the sea off Greece’s Samos on Wednesday, according to an announcement by the Geodynamics Institute of the National Observatory of Athens.
The epicenter was reported to have occurred seventeen kilometers southwest of the town of Pythagoreio, the institute said. The depth was 12.8 kilometers. It occurred at 1:10 p.m.
There was no immediate report on damage or casualties.
Another milder quake occurred at 12:56 p.m. in the same area. It measured 4.7 on the Richter scale and occurred at a depth of ten kilometers.
Two people were killed in October 2020 during Samos earthquake
Greece lies in a highly seismically-active region. The vast majority of earthquakes cause no damage or injuries, however.
In October 2020, an earthquake that struck the eastern Greek Aegean island of Samos and the nearby Turkish coast killed two people on Samos and at least seventy-five people in Turkey.
The country is located in a complex geological boundary zone in the eastern Mediterranean between the African and Eurasian Plates.
The northern part of Greece lies on the Eurasian Plate while the southern part lies on the Aegean Sea Plate.
The Aegean Sea Plate is moving southwestward with respect to the Eurasian Plate at about thirty millimeters (one inch) per year while the African Plate is subducting northward beneath the Aegean Sea Plate at a rate of about forty millimeters (1.6 inches) per year.
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